During the twelve days until Christmas break, the King Street Chronicle will again present staff favorites from the holiday season. This final edition will not include 12 drummers drumming, but beloved Christmas songs, memories, recipes, movies, and crafts.
Song: “Let It Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” performed by Mr. Dean Martin.
Recipe: Candy Cane Kiss Cookies
Total Time: One hour and ten minutes
Quantity: 32 to 36 cookies
Ingredients:
- Two cups and one tablespoon of all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- One and one-half teaspoons of baking powder
- One-fourth teaspoon of salt
- Ten tablespoons of unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- One cup of granulated sugar
- One large egg at room temperature
- One teaspoon of vanilla extract
- One-fourth teaspoon of peppermint extract
- One-half cup nonpareil sprinkles
- 32 to 36 candy-cane-flavored Hershey’s Kisses, unwrapped
Steps:
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl until combined. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, using a hand-held or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together on high speed until creamy and combined, about two minutes. Add the egg, vanilla extract, and peppermint extract and beat until combined, about one minute. Scrape down the sides and up the bottom of the bowl and beat again as needed to combine.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix on low speed until fully combined. The dough will be very thick.
- Roll dough into balls, one scant tablespoon of dough each. Roll each dough ball generously in the sprinkles.
- Place sprinkled dough balls on a baking sheet or plate. Chill them in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or up to one day. If chilling for longer than one hour, cover them.
- While the cookie dough balls are chilling, preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Place the chilled dough balls about two inches apart on the lined baking sheets. Bake for 12 minutes or until edges appear set. Remove cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheets for five minutes.
- Press a Hershey’s Kiss into the center of each. Then, using a thin spatula, immediately transfer the cookies to a large plate or a few smaller plates. Place the plate of cookies in the freezer for ten minutes to quickly set the candy in the cookie.
- Remove from the freezer and serve.
Movie: Arthur Christmas
“Everyone knows that each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn’t know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It’s up to Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa’s youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns,” courtesy of rottentomatoes.com.
Activity: Snow Slime
Supplies:
- One tablespoon of instant snow
- One cup of clear glue
- Three-fourths cup of water
- One teaspoon of borax
- Glitter
- A bowl
- A spoon
- An airtight container
Instructions:
- Mix one tablespoon of instant snow with one-half cup of water. Stir it so it is fluffy. Set it aside.
- Mix one cup of glue with three-fourths cup of water.
- Add in a slime activator a little bit at a time until it starts to clump. Then, mix it by hands.
- Mix the slime into the instant snow by stretching it and folding it over.
- Add in the glitter.
- Keep stretching it for a few more minutes until it starts to get soft, fluffy, and stretchable.
- Put it into an airtight container and let it rest overnight. Then the snow slime will be nice and fluffy.
Memory: Emma Mulcahy ’25
“Every year, my family and I celebrate Christmas upstate New York at our farm, and we call it a ‘Cowboy Christmas.’ This is one of my favorite times of the year because I get to spend time with my many cousins that I do not get to see all year round. We all wear cowboy hats, go sledding, and many more activities. My grandpa and my uncles go out and chop the great wood out there, and make incredible fires. The joy and laughter of the cousins with the snowy landscape and crackling fires make each Cowboy Christmas truly special.”
Featured Image by Caitlin Leahy ’25
